Vega-C | Biomass
Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV)
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
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Biomass
Biomass is an European Space Agency mission designed to measure the density of carbon stored in the world's forests. The spacecraft, built by Airbus Defence and Space, features the first civilian P-band synthetic aperture radar as well as a 12m-diameter deployable reflector from L3Harris made of over 900 km of gold-coated molybdenum 25µm wire. With a minimum operational lifetime of 5 years in its 666km 6am/6pm sun-synchronous orbit, the global coverage achieved every 9 months allows to precisely monitor the evolution of forests over time.
Vega-C
Height 35.00 Meters
Max Stages 4
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 2974 kN
Diameter 3.00 Meters
Mass To LEO 3300 kg
Liftoff Mass 210 Tonnes
Launch Success 3
Consecutive Success 2
Maiden Flight 2022-07-13
Launch Failures 1
Updates
Cosmic_Penguin
2025-04-29T10:45:00+0000
Spacecraft confirmed operational.
hitura-nobad
2025-04-29T10:25:00+0000
Biomass deployed.
hitura-nobad
2025-04-29T09:16:00+0000
Liftoff
Cosmic_Penguin
2025-04-29T09:04:00+0000
Tweaked T-0.
LL2
2025-04-29T08:53:00+0000
Official Webcast by arianespace has started
Cosmic_Penguin
2025-03-25T09:48:00+0000
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin
2025-02-03T09:14:00+0000
NET early April.
Nosu
2024-03-27T10:48:39+0000
Targeting March 2025
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-12-05T14:40:10+0000
Launcher swapped with one for Sentinel-2C in summer 2023.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-10-02T11:26:27+0000
NET Q2 2024.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-07-10T13:56:19+0000
NET April 2024
Nosu
2022-11-07T10:53:42+0000
NET 2024
Nosu
2022-11-07T10:53:41+0000
NET 2024
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2025-04-24T09:50:00+0000
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Simulations ongoing for Biomass launch
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Final preparations for Biomass operations
2025-04-16T11:45:00+0000
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Forest mission sealed within rocket fairing for liftoff
2025-04-10T09:30:00+0000
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Biomass fully loaded
2025-03-31T14:39:00+0000
ESA
Biomass cleared for fuelling
2025-03-17T11:25:00+0000
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Biomass out of the box
2025-03-10T10:00:00+0000
ESA
ESA’s pioneering Biomass satellite arrives at launch site
2023-12-04T16:27:34+0000
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What happens in Vega didn’t stay in Vega, as key rocket parts went missing
2023-12-04T09:06:17+0000
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